Motivational Quotes

Freedom

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De